Shaped by the Shield: Environment, Identity, and History in Muskoka

Wednesday, August 9, 2017

4:00 pm

Annex Room – Huntsville Public Library

MWC invites you to join us for a talk by Dr. Andrew Watson featuring his research about the ways that the environmental realities of the Canadian Shield shaped the rural identity of Muskoka during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

His research, which forms the basis for an upcoming book, examines the transformation of Muskoka from a strictly Indigenous place into a settler colonial society and the rise of tourism, and assesses the ways that social, economic, and environmental changes shaped sustainability and rural identity in the past.